You can take a guided walking tour, dancing lessons, compete in a watermelon toss and even stay in the same cabin where Baby and her family stayed.

2. The movie was very scandalous in 1987.

Even in 1987, much was made about a certain “Dirty Dancing” background dancer, wearing a polka-dot dress and doing that leg-up step. According to screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein, the movie’s editor said, “How can you have respect for a girl who dances this way?”

Well, apparently, the leg-up step was known as “Eleanor’s step,” and in real life won Bergstein “champagne contests” (in which her parents scored a bottle) when she was still a preteen, thanks to her mamba and cha-cha skills. Needless to say, Bergstein won out over the editor and the leg-up step stayed.

3. The soundtrack was almost too expensive for the movie.

The studio told Bergstein the classic songs she wanted in the movie were too expensive. Eventually, they made a deal: 10 master tracks, and 10 “sound-alikes,” which cost less. If Bergstein could correctly identify six of the original songs from their fake versions, they could keep the originals in the movie, despite the cost.

5. The movie is based on screenwriter Bergstein’s experiences.

According to the writer, “dirty dancing” was what all the young, hip kids were doing in the mid-1950s when she was growing up. Bergstein first started dirty dancing herself while she was living in Brooklyn… and then eventually in the Catskills, like someone else we know.

“I was a dirty dancing queen,” Bergstein told TODAY. “A teenage mambo queen. And I had all kinds of trophies. In Brooklyn there were competitions in basements, just a couple of kids in basements. My signature step was my leg would go up around the neck of my partner.”